An apology to Karl Marx. I always pooh-poohed his basic thesis that anarchy would eventually replace socialism. I can see now that he was right. The state did just wither away, Dr Marx, I stand corrected.
For a long time I was having trouble doing this level and I couldn't figure out why. I had done it once using the poisoned fish and it worked great but after I improved my speed it suddenly stopped working. I had changed my route so that I ran toward the car gate, across the driveway and back to the backyard gate and over to the end of the porch. I would crouch there and then after the two gate guards turned toward the car gate I would head to the other end of the porch.
I studied Hyamoto Jr's movements and found that when I went past the window to his room, he would go into an alerted state and stand in the corner of the room. I'm guessing once he gets nervous and stands in the corner, then he's not going to eat fish no matter how many plates the girl brings him. Keep this in mind when you see the pics of this level. All I had to do was walk past his window to make him nervous. So the goal of this level was to kill every other person in the yard and in the house including in his room without him leaving the table.
 | As you can see by the screen grab on the left, Hyamoto is seated calmly at the table waiting for his poisoned fish and Hitman is about to take him out silently from behind. No matter what else you imagine happened on this level leading up to this shot, the fact that this shot exists at all is proof that this was a really fun level to accomplish. Click the pic to enlarge it. |
If you know this level, you know that there are two guards and some kind of body guard in this room with Hyamoto Jr. I was able to get the body-guard to come out into the hallway and took him out with a silenced round before he could fire a shot. This left the other two. After clearing the back yard completely, amazingly, one can sneak in through the doors to the deck and get the guard between the two halves of the room. The weirdest thing, though was that when I backed up into the far half of the room and took out the guy by the door with a headshot from the far corner, even though he fell to the ground just in six meters in front and to the right of Hyamoto Jr., Hyamoto still didn't seem to notice it!
 | Here a shot of Hyamoto calmly sitting alone at his table, still waiting for his fish. At this point every other person is taken out and he is the only one left alive. Don't forget, this guy goes into a panic just from somebody walking by outside his window. You can clearly see the guy by the door but apparently Hyamoto can't. Click the pic to enlarge it. |
